It will be a constant war. You may win some battles but the mice and rats will win the war. I suggest you move.

We had infestations when I was a teenager. I vividly remember watching a mouse climb paw over paw up a lamp power cord to reach the top of a desk. Another time a rat jumped on my bed in the middle of the night. It scared the piss out of me. I turned the light on as fast as I could but he had already disappeared. We found him the next morning in the closet and beat him to death with bats and brooms. Another time a roach crawled in my ear when I was sleeping. Half awake, I felt my ear itching so I jammed my finger in to scratch the itch. I crushed the roach in my ear canal. Then I joined the military and life got better.

OK, I just waiting for my girlfriend to pick me up. She was supposed to be here at 9:30. Reses are at 10:00.

Can I tell you it is sometimes hard going out with my girlfriends? They all come more fabulous backgrounds and come from money while I do not. The queens I am going out with tonight are from Wellesley, Mass; Chestnut Hill, PA and New Brunswick.....and Waunakee, Wisconsin-that would be me. Waunakee's claim to fame is that it is the only one in the world.

It means I need to work harder to keep up with them because they have a lot given to them while I have worked very hard for everything I have attained.

Like one of last week's answers, your solution to move is just not possible for me. For starters, I own my apartment.

I have argued non stop with our management company that at some point, this is a BUILDING problem, not just an individual unit's problem. They just come back and say "plug holes, plug holes." But unless they too plug the holes around the foundation, then we all will have a problem.

Also in this unit, one time only, I have had a roach crawl over my face while sleeping. As it happened just the one time, I chalked it up to living in the city. And in the case of bugs, it is true that an individual can do a lot to remedy the situation.

With rodents, it will take a group effort, and I haven't been able to convince the group just yet.

@thirdresponder, if you don't live in California or New York you can try getting a ferret. They can be pretty smelly and you have to get them young so they can be litter box trained, and for heaven's sake make sure the ferret is spayed.

Ferrets kill rats and mice, and the very scent of them will chase the rodents away. Did I mention that ferrets have musk? It may take getting used to.

And what about when my friends come over and they bring their big dogs? What's the interaction (best case scenario) like there? - my friends dogs are usually really well-behaved.

And then what's the emotional attachment with their owner like? Are they just saying, "yeah, whatever, whoever?" Or do they really form an attachment. Is their poop smelly? 'bout how often do you change the litter box?

I wonder if thirdresponder has tried the obvious mousetrap with a little bit of cheese?

Some things are damned hard to improve upon, but bless the hearts of those who try... I guess?

Penny, you didn't read my first posting in this entry. In it, I said that what works is glue traps. However, I said, the mice keep coming. Glue traps far superior to the snap ones, and they don't need bait.

The problem is cutting off them off at the source, which our building has not been able to do.